 Deb Walker Co-I |
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| Dr. Deborah Walker, DNSc, CNM, FNP is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Nurse-Midwifery Track at the University of Michigan, School of Nursing. She has been a Certified Nurse-Midwife for 11 years and a Family Nurse Practitioner for 20 years. She graduated with a Doctorate in Nursing Science from UCLA in 1994. Currently she serves on the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Board of Directors as Executive Secretary. Her interest in informatics is related to the clinical and educational uses of information technology. Dr. Walker's research focuses primarily on information technology uses in nurse-midwifery education, women's self-care during the antepartum period and nurse midwifery care outcomes. Her currently funded projects include a Division of Nursing grant for the conversion of the graduate nurse-midwifery education program to a web based offering (Principal Investigator), and the NIH/NLM funded Next Generation/Visible Human Project (Co-Investigator). The UM Visible Human project is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort to implement the Visible Human data set as an anatomy resource for health sciences students using the Next Generation Internet. The University of Michigan, as represented by Dr. Walker, is the only School of Nursing currently participating in any of the Visble Human projects. |
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